Sure.<br><br>The purpose of this big set of patches was to make it possible for koha to send notifications to borrowers upon checkout and check-in.<br><br>Next, you might be wondering why this seemingly simple task took 17 patches to accomplish.&nbsp; ;-)<br>
<br>First, the high number of patches reflects the back and forth process of showing Dan and Galen what I had done and then going back to fix the flaws that they found in my work.<br><br>Second, the specs required a high degree of configurability for this feature, so it wasn&#39;t just a matter of sending a notification when a check-in or checkout event happened.&nbsp; I also had to implement ways to allow administrators to define the conditions for when alerts could be sent out.&nbsp; (The UI for this is in admin/item_circulation_alerts.pl .)&nbsp; I also had to make it possible for users to set whether they wanted to receive their notifications via email or sms.<br>
<br>Third, the spec required that multiple checkout or check-in events should be aggregated together.&nbsp; For example, if you checked out 10 books, you should only get 1 notification that lists the 10 books you checked out. You should NOT get 10 separate notifications, because that would be annoying.&nbsp; Anyway, to make this possible, I had to extend the messaging system so that I could find pending messages in the message_queue table and add more text to them.&nbsp; (The code for most of this work is in C4/Message.pm .)<br>
<br>Hopefully, this clarifies the overall intent of this patch set.<br><br>--beppu<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:42 AM, LAURENT Henri-Damien <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:henridamien@koha-fr.org" target="_blank">henridamien@koha-fr.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi John<br>
Thanks for clarification.<br>
It would be great to have &nbsp;a summary or a link to RFC in your patches, so that we can better catch the general purpose of and the general architecture implied by &nbsp;the handfull of patches sent.<br>
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Henri-Damien LAURENT<br><br>
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